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Tropical Cyclone LEEPI, continued moving north-west toward Kyushu island (Japan) as a Tropical depression and strengthening. On 14 August at 0.00 UTC its centre was located over the sea approximately 530 km south-east of Miyazaki city (Kyushu island, Miyazaki Prefecture) with maximum sustained winds of 111 km/h (Tropical Storm).

Manila: As a result of the massive flooding in Marikina City and surrounding areas, the environment department has ordered an immediate stop in quarrying operations in the hinterland areas of Rizal province. Marikina City was among the areas in Luzon that suffered from heavy flooding as a result of....

Tropical Cyclone LEEPI, continued moving north-west toward Kyushu island (Japan) as a Tropical depression and strengthening. On 14 August at 0.00 UTC its centre was located over the sea approximately 530 km south-east of Miyazaki city (Kyushu island, Miyazaki Prefecture) with maximum sustained winds of 111 km/h (Tropical Storm).

Manila: As a result of the massive flooding in Marikina City and surrounding areas, the environment department has ordered an immediate stop in quarrying operations in the hinterland areas of Rizal province. Marikina City was among the areas in Luzon that suffered from heavy flooding as a result of....

Aerial photo shows the confluence of the sandy Rongjiang River and the clean Langxi River. The 14th typhoon of this year,
Yagi
brought heavy rainfall in Rong'an, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Sunday, making the Rongjiang River in the area muddy while another branch of the river is still clean.

MANILA/BEIJING • More than 54,000 people were moved to safer ground in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces in the last two days due to flash floods caused by heavy rain brought on by Typhoon
Yagi
. At least 21,000 people were evacuated on Saturday from Marikina City, one of the cities that....

Tropical Cyclone LEEPI, formed over the North West Pacific Ocean on 11 August and starting moving north-west toward Kyushu island (Japan) as a Tropical depression and strengthening. On 13 August its centre was located over the sea approximately 1 000 km south-east of Tanega island (Osumi islands,....

SHANGHAI - Three people were
killed
and 6 others injured in Shanghai when a shop signboard toppled onto a crowded sidewalk in a popular shopping district amid heavy rain triggered by Typhoon
Yagi
. The accident occurred Sunday night on busy Nanjing East Road in the city center, a few hundreds meters....

Typhoon
Yagi
, the 14th this year, forced a total of 204,949 people in 10 cities to evacuate by Sunday afternoon as it made landfall at around 11:35pm on Sunday in Wenling County, east
China
’s Zhejiang Province, bringing gales of up to force 10, or 102 kilometers per hour at its eye, according to the provincial flood control headquarters.

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